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Football: Was points per game fair?
Would the "points per game" method have led to a fair outcome of the Premier League?
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Unlocking the workforce
How can we all get back to work safely in the face of a lingering pandemic?
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The agent perspective
How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.
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Building meaning: dog or ostrich
How do we build our models of the world? Yoshua Bengio explains how deep learning will help machines act to understand the world in a similar way.
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Euler's polyhedron formula
In this article we explores one of Leonhard Euler's most famous results.
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Life, choice, and other problems
We explore some problems physics as we know it has trouble dealing with and a new theory that may provide answers.
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Understanding information
Information is supremely powerful, yet it can't be described by traditional physics. Constructor theory provides a potential answer.
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Is life unbounded?
Acknowledging that life is going to go on for a little while yet throws a different light on how we make decisions in a crisis.
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A Pointless return!
New episodes of Pointless, the addictive TV quiz show, return today! Celebrate with John Haigh and some fascinating Pointless maths!
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The growth rate of COVID-19
We all now know about R, but sometimes it can be good to consider another number: the growth rate of an epidemic.
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The maths behind combining R ratios
In a previous article we introduced the problems that can arise when combine the reproduction ratios of a disease in different settings, such as hospitals and the community. In this article we dive into the maths that helps you get to the bottom of these problems.
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Finding a way out of lockdown
Mathematical models can help the nation return to (some sort of) normality.